[filmscanners] Re: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Laurie Solomon
>You don't have to worry so much about being accidentally associated with > negative opinions about Ed's VueScan support And why is that? Can you guarentee that this will not happen? I have gotten in enough trouble for things that I have said and meant in my own posts without having someone tak

[filmscanners] RE: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Mark Otway
>> Laurie, I think you're being massively over-sensitive about this. I read your and Tomek's post, and it was absolutely clear that Tomek was making a comparison. If you read the post again you'll see that you wrote: >> I sincerely hope that David will stay subscribed >> to the list and remain

[filmscanners] RE: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Mark Otway
>> Am I the only one who's happy with NikonScan? It crashed >> once on me. Sometime last year, I think. It's not the crashing in NS that's the problem for me. NS has never actually crashed on me, even before I upgraded to 3.12. The reason I like VS so much more than NS is because the scans VS

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Alan Tyson
I understand why Ed has gone to html pages for the 'manual'. Speaking as a former 'Help' author, I know that's it's a major task to keep a complete conventional Help file maintained and updated, when changes are occurring all the time. Obviously it's less important than the program itself, when yo

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Shunith Dutt
Yup... the Nikon 3.1 used to stink... However, the latest version 3.12 is pretty ok have been using it quite a bit of recent and must admit... no problems... of course, i don't try to do too many scans at one time... but then my work methods are such that any way i usually take one frame... s

[filmscanners] Re: VueScan FIY (was: Polaroid's future)

2002-03-14 Thread Moreno Polloni
>> Agreed. Nikon is notorious for poor software, and not just among VS users. Many who own Nikon scanners use SilverFast which is excellent (although I personally do not like its GUI and other features) and costs eight times as much as VS and has (or at least had) a worse manual. (I understand thi

[filmscanners] Re: Dust on CCD? Artixscan 4000T/SS4000

2002-03-14 Thread K2 Chittin
I don't know if the CCD faces down as per David's comments. It'd be easy to find out from Microtek. As for the brush that Art mentioned, I suspect it's a Polaroid concept. I haven't heard of anything similar from Microtek. Again, I could find out. In all likelihood, I think I'm just being ove